Do you button up your duvet cover before washing?

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Please help resolve an incredibly minor dispute in our house. I’ve just changed our sheets and when I went to put on the clean duvet cover it was buttoned up so I had to unbutton it to put it on and then re button it. It has proper fiddly wooden buttons and it may be just menopause but I have the rage over this.

So…

YABU: Yes I button up the duvet cover before putting it in the washing machine to stop other items going inside it.

YANU: What a waste of time. If any items go inside the duvet cover during washing then it’s easy to take them out before drying.

I never do..... but what a good idea. Why am I not doing this!

You don’t wash the pillowcases at the same time? Because I do and they end up in a clump in the corner of the duvet cover if it’s left open.

Yes, always button them up otherwise they eat the pillow cases and fitted sheets.

I always button them up , it’s easier to dry them buttoned as well

Yes, easier to iron or hang on the line.
I know I'm sad but I love getting into a clean bed without wrinkles

No. I don't button it up. I wash all bedlinen together and not with smalls so nothing gets caught inside the duvet cover.

How annoying to have to do buttons again and again.

Yes. It stops the carnage

Clearly you need to buy bedding with less annoying buttons.

Snap!

Button up here. Can’t stand sodding pillowcases getting in there. And they will go in there, every sodding time.

I just turn it inside out so everything is trapped on the outside

Super king size duvet cover, button a couple to stop it going inside out but only wash with other bedding so losing socks etc not an issue!

I only wash the bedlinen together and it's the sheet and pillowcases that go inside the cover.

It is much much more annoying having to fish the sheet and pillowcases out after washing and then again after drying than doing the buttons

I fasten the buttons on mine for washing and undo them when I’m ironing them. Easy

YABU. I button it up and leave it buttoned up in the tumble dryer as well, otherwise stuff doesn't eash properly or dry properly either!

It has never occurred to me to button up a duvet cover before washing it! We are always finding underwear mixed up in clean bedding. What a great idea!

Yes, have to or all the socks and pants get in and hide 👀

Best thing is to get zip up duvet covers. Much easier!

@mydogisthebest wonder why it never happens to me. Pillowcases and sheets just don't get inside.

Thermodynamics, surely it's centrifugal force that makes everything go inside the duvet cover. Darks go in together in my machine, I make sure there's enough for a full load same with lights and whites. It takes seconds to do up the buttons or press studs,far longer to faff about fishing everything out.

YABU. Always button it up or it swallows the sheet and pillow cases and they don't seem to wash as well or spin as well.

I wonder if mine doesn't do that because I use the long ego-cycle that doesn't agitate the washing as much?

I don't button the duvet up in rebellion against my mother- throughout my childhood she droned on about washing day and how I needed to know that duvet buttons had to be done up to be a good wife....

Clearly I'm a slob and not a good wife 😁

I don’t, but can also see the advantage of buttoning it. Next time the bedding is changed I will button up!

That's weird. On the rare occasion DH changes the bed and puts the bedding on to wash he never remembers to do the buttons up and, every single time, the sheet and the pillow cases end up in the cover.

My washing machine also likes turning T. shirts inside out!

God no, what a waste of time! And how are so many duvet covers eating all the laundry?? Mine goes in with whatever light items need washing. I don't think I've ever had to fish anything more than one sock or something, and most times not even that.

It is washed inside out and folded into 2 or 4 on the dryer though, so it has neat lines and doesn't need ironing. Also a waste of time for bedding!